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…Stalin, Joseph Vissarionovich, 1879-1953, Soviet Communist leader and head of the USSR from the death of V. I. Lenin (1924) until his own death, b. Gori, Georgia. His real name was Dzhugashvili (also spelled Dzugashvili or Djugashvili); he adopted…

…The 8th of May 1945 is an important date. Not only that is the day when the Second World War ended, but also it is the day in which Europe was divided in two zones. What determined this division was the communist doctrine. The US and the USSR were…

…of mutually assured destruction. <Tab/>The USA went to war in Korea for three main reasons. The first reason was the 'Domino theory'. Salami tactics in Eastern Europe was not the only place where Communists were coming to power. In the Far East, too…

…wasn't controlled by the government, and all this proved how weak the governmental system was. Another major problem is the various rebellions occurring in Germany at the time. In 1919, two communist leaders, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Leibknecht…

…wing. The left was the Communists, while those on the right were fascist. The three main problems facing the Weimar Republic were the Left wing, Right wing, and also the ineffective constitution. The Weimar government was not strong due to the constitution…

…and even India and Indonesia. The Geneva Agreements in 1954 has divided Vietnam between 17th parallel, the North was under communist system. This was already a failure of Containment and a failure in the battle against communism. Thus the US saw more threats…

…influence on China's new Communist regime, identifying China's involvement in the plotting of the June 25th invasion, and by identifying China's position after the opposition imposes on North Korea's June 25th invasion, an understanding that China played a very…

…Diaz-Balart, born in 1949, has served as head of Cuba's atomic energy commission. Fidel Castro Ruz, Cuba's enduring "maximum leader," has held power since 1959. He is president (since 1976; formerly prime minister), first secretary of the Cuban Communist…

…Leonid Brezhnev He joined (1931) the Communist party and . In 1952 he became a secretary of the party's central committee. After suffering a slight political setback following Joseph Stalin's death, Brezhnev filled a number of party posts. In 1957…

…States and Russia were allies and even helped each other during the two World Wars. But after WW II, we became suspicious of Russia and other communist countries and they became suspicious of us. Russia remained a communist country until communism collapsed…